Psalm 119:100
Modern Translations
New International Version
I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.

New Living Translation
I am even wiser than my elders, for I have kept your commandments.

English Standard Version
I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

Berean Study Bible
I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.

New American Standard Bible
I understand more than those who are old, Because I have complied with Your precepts.

NASB 1995
I understand more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts.

NASB 1977
I understand more than the aged, Because I have observed Thy precepts.

Amplified Bible
I understand more than the aged [who have not observed Your precepts], Because I have observed and kept Your precepts.

Christian Standard Bible
I understand more than the elders because I obey your precepts.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I understand more than the elders because I obey Your precepts.

Contemporary English Version
and obeying your laws makes me wiser than those who have lived a long time.

Good News Translation
I have greater wisdom than those who are old, because I obey your commands.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I have more wisdom than those with many years of experience, because I have obeyed your guiding principles.

International Standard Version
I have more common sense than the elders, for I observe your precepts.

NET Bible
I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

New King James Version
I understand more than the ancients, Because I keep Your precepts.

King James 2000 Bible
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.

New Heart English Bible
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

World English Bible
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

American King James Version
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.

American Standard Version
I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.

A Faithful Version
I understand more than the ancients because I keep Your precepts.

Darby Bible Translation
I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.

English Revised Version
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept thy precepts.

Webster's Bible Translation
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
I vnderstoode more then the ancient, because I kept thy precepts.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(119:4) I am made to vnderstande more then the aged can: because I kept thy commaundementes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yee I am wyser then the aged, for I kepe thy comaundementes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Above elderly—I understand more, "" For I have kept Your precepts.

Young's Literal Translation
Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

Smith's Literal Translation
I shall understand above the old men, for I watched thy charges.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments.

Catholic Public Domain Version
I have understood beyond the elders. For I have searched your commandments.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
I understand more than The Elders because I have kept your commandments.

Lamsa Bible
I understand more than the elders, because I keep thy statutes.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
I understand more than mine elders, Because I have keep Thy precepts.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I understand more that the aged; because I have sought out thy commandments.
















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